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Chapter 14
Demon's Lair
"Nothing." Clive took her cup and pointed to a nearby table. "Let's sit down and talk."
There was fear in Tara's eyes. She seemed at ease, but I sensed her reluctance to lose even a little of the bar's protection. She acted out her fear by lazily twirling a towel around the bar as she skirted around it. I couldn't read the look she gave me as she darted past. What is it?
I followed her to the table. The bar was empty, but it felt like there was something wrong. Smell? No. Hardly. More like a feeling that made my hair stand on end. Someone just got here. Someone or something left as soon as we opened the door.
Clive forces his back against the wall, Tara opposite him. I took the empty seat to his left. I had a bar behind me, but I trusted Clive. He will look after me. My attention was drawn to the dark corners of the long room.
“Tara, I'm accompanying Sam because I'm also very interested in what you'll tell her." He
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Who invited Volkov?Someone mentally attacked her. Before you."What do I care what happens to her?" Sitri's words stopped tormenting me. Either he lost interest or heard the annoyance in Clive's voice. It depends on the circumstances, doesn't it?I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. Bile, hot and sour, hit my throat. Having a man take control of my body brought back the memories I had worked hard to bury. I wanted to run away and hide in the Killed Sheep, but first I wanted to hunt down and kill every demon in the room.“If this has nothing to do with your kind, then we just interrupted your poker game. And for this invasion, you have already received your payback, given the games you played with her. However, if I discover that the visions incapacitating her are the work of demons... well, let's just say, for the sake of the health of all concerned, it would be better if it wasn't." Clive's voice remained pleasant, if not bored, but the skin around Sitri's eyes tightened.“I won
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Wolves are coming"So bad, right? I asked you to let me write your profile for you. I could... how did I put it? "Soften the edges a little."I like sharp edges. There's nothing soft about me, Sam. Stop trying to humanize me." She knocked over the whiskey and put the glass back on the bar with a thud."Do you know what we need? Dating app for supernatural beings!" I refilled her glass. Alcohol didn't work on her the way it did on most. She drank it like water. "You won't have to waste your time on people who don't suit you.""It's all my fault. Meg mentioned that without her sisters, who currently live on the other side of the world, she is too lonely. I suggested a dating app and we spent the entire evening creating her profile, adding pictures and swapping positions while Dave gave us cocktails.""We've been through this before. It was a dumpster fire." Meg ate another handful of nuts."Why? For me, this is the perfect solution.""You are so young and innocent. I have no idea why I
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In which Sam is forced to wonder who her allies areI talked to most of the bar and bookstore patrons, but eventually I did find the one with Ole's number. Ole, the unblinking-eyed type, was an owl shapeshifter and special collections archivist at the San Francisco Public Library. I asked about his work when he first started coming to the bar to drink and stare. As a folklore librarian, he had access to very specialized databases that I would need to study.When Dave arrived, I asked him to watch the bar because I was about to leave. “No, you won't go,” Dave leaned against the counter, arms crossed over his chest, radiating annoyance.“Almost sure I will. Hold the line,” I said as I walked past him at the counter."Stop." He extended his hand, blocking the way. I did, but mostly out of courtesy. I could dive under his arm. He flashed his eyes. I glared back fiercely. “What the hell, Sam? How many times does someone have to try to kill you before you stop making it easy for them?"At h
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Never piss off a bansheeI pressed the "Print" button and heard the sheets slide out of the printer, which was standing somewhere behind me. Ole got down from the stool, got some sheets for me, and returned to his perch.I borrowed Ole's pen and started translating whatever words I could make out. Once I did that, I used context clues to translate the words I was sure of. Thirty minutes later, with a huge headache, I pieced together a story written two hundred and forty years ago, even though the events in that story seemed to have taken place long before the story was written.The story was about a witch who was worried about her newborn. Children disappeared in the village, and she was afraid for her daughter. A protective enchantment was set up to seal her tiny house in the woods.Waking up one morning, the mother found that the crib was empty and the charms had been destroyed. She looked everywhere for her child, but she never foun
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He gave me another soft, quick kiss"Yes, they would have done a rape test. We'd have proof of who attacked you." Clive clenched his jaw in anger, but then he managed and pulled himself together."You've had enough problems. When Helena told me that you talked about wanting to live on your own, move out of her apartment and start your own business, I wanted to help. I got the impression that you trust Marcus. Whatever it was, he was a member of the family. If I told you that it was from him, I was quite sure that you would agree.""I nodded. " I think I surprised both of us when I leaned in to kiss him on the cheek. He tilted his head, a wary interest in his eyes. I don't know what got into me. Perhaps the understanding that life is short, that Marcus is dead, and that Clive, no matter how hard he tried to hide it, was a hero, not a villain. Maybe mostly it was because I was tired of living in isolation. Whatever the reason, I changed my mind at the last minute and kissed him on the
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He claimed that I belonged to him“Miss Quinn, good to see you again. Although I regret this reason.” His gaze flickered over the dead woman, and then returned to me again. Is there a better place to work here?For a second I thought. "There is a sofa in the bookstore. Will it fit?""Yes, I think it will lift you higher." He smiled kindly. At least that's how it seemed to me. I hardly saw his face behind the beard. However, the skin around his eyes was wrinkled."Can we lose the wetsuit?"I tried to get up but slipped, my legs were too weak to stand. Clive was there, holding out his hand, but I pushed it away. I could fucking take care of myself. I didn't need his protection or his hand. I stifled a sob as I pulled my good leg under me and stood up. My wounds revived before a wave of pleasant pain relief washed through me again.I tried to unzip my wetsuit, but my hands were trembling. I was wearing only cycling sho
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Mom's friend"Hey!" He carried me to the bathroom and set me on the floor, holding me until my legs began to work properly.“Remind me who was wandering around the city alone in the dead of night after numerous attempts on her life? Who jumped into the ocean for a dead body?" He tapped his chin in mock thought. "Let me think." He waited while I stood motionless in the bathroom with the door open."Now what? Can you help me undress?" I snorted and closed the door. Knowing I needed help but not wanting to ask for it, I kicked off the covers and tried to figure out how to get out of my shorts and sports bra without bleeding out. I knew that Clive and the drugs would take away most of the pain, but I still suffered from sudden painful spasms when I moved in the wrong direction.I was finally able to remove my shorts and panties without hurting the wounds and let them fall to the floor. A sports bra is a completely different story. I repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to remove it, sweat
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